Marcelo struggled between anger and skepticism. He thought of God as man's invention that somehow even educated people choose to believe in. He thought of the Bible as an outdated book which just seemed to manipulate others. One day however, a serious accident occurs which leads him to question if he is really right about everything.

At the beginning of the 1930's, when the Brazilian version of fascism - the movement of the green shirts and the sigma symbol of the socalled "integralists" - appear in Southern Brazil, Ludvig Kapstein, a non-practicing Jew, decides to leave his city and move far away. He is nicknamed "Prophet" because of his long beard, his wisdom and his free spirit...